--- title: What They Fight Against - Czechoslovakia url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/czechoslovakia-what-they-fight-against-1939/ description: 'A blue sheet numbered 18 with three halftone photographs: crowds facing German motorcyclists in a street, a postcard view of Lidice.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. What They Fight Against - Czechoslovakia [![What They Fight Against - Czechoslovakia, 1939 Czechoslovakia poster: A blue sheet numbered 18 with three halftone](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/czechoslovakia-what-they-fight-against-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/czechoslovakia-what-they-fight-against-1939.jpg) # What They Fight Against - Czechoslovakia A blue sheet numbered 18 with three halftone photographs: crowds facing German motorcyclists in a street, a postcard view of Lidice, and two uniformed men labelled Himmler and Heydrich. The tell is the vocabulary applied to named people ('Nazi gangsters', 'butchers of Czechoslovakia') beside a list of killings, forced labour and the razing of Lidice, with no sources given for the figures. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` WHAT THEY FIGHT AGAINST 1 The invaders are not welcome. 2 The small village of Lidice. 3 Himmler and Heydrich, the butchers of Czechoslovakia. The fate of Czechoslovakia was sealed at Munich in 1938. On the Ides of March, 1939, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia. The terror and oppression started. Neurath, Himmler and Heydrich, the Nazi gangsters, took over and set to work. Hundreds of Czechoslovaks were shot or hanged without trial. Thousands tortured to death in dread concentration camps. About a million were dragged off to Germany for forced labour. After the shooting of Heydrich an entire mining villiage—Lidice—was razed to the ground and, according to the latest information received, its 1200 men, women and children were murdered. All Czechoslovak universities and technical colleges were closed. All political rights swept away...No part of Czechoslovak national life escaped the terror. 18 ``` [← This Is Czechoslovakia, One of the United Nations](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/czechoslovakia-this-is-czechoslovakia-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/) [World Famous Figures - Czechoslovakia →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/czechoslovakia-world-famous-figures-1939/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)